Ilina Kareva

SAP_ALL wanna-be at SAP (views are my own and do not reflect those of my employer) and passionate traveler!

[Ilina Kareva @ikareva]

Would def hang one of those at home <3

[9GAG ❤️ Memeland @9GAG]

I feel sorry for breathing the same air as him

📹 @jjcook9628

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

You'll never look at your phone again after watching this ‼️‼️

[Hōrōshi バガボンド @KatanaLarp]

https://t.co/h9C7YZeCx3

[Stuttering Craig (Official) @StutteringCraig]

MUST WATCH.

This NAILS the difference between 90's kids who played video games and Gen Z kids.

Thanks to @ShortN40 for the tip on this.

[GP Q @argosaki]

BREASTMILK
She thought she was studying milk.
What she uncovered was a conversation.

In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away.

Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.

It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus.

Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence.
But Katie trusted the data.

And the data pointed to a radical idea.

Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.

For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby?

Katie kept digging.

Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.

The babies who drank it grew faster.
They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious.

Milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping behavior.

Then came the discovery that changed everything.

When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.

Within hours, the milk changes.

White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.

When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.

This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.

A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.

As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.

The first food every human consumes.
The substance that shaped our species.
Largely ignored.

So she did something bold.

She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk.
It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.

The discoveries kept coming.

Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.

In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health.

The implications are staggering.

Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.

Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.

All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”

Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.

[Popular Science @PopSci]

Philip Noel-Baker won a silver medal at age 30—then turned to a cause that many people didn't believe in but that earned him an even greater honor. https://t.co/gesaleb9z1

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Do you remember before the internet, that people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information?

Yeah, it wasn't that.

[9GAG ❤️ Memeland @9GAG]

Me going through my 5,000 liked songs and getting flashbacks to each era of my life

[Jatin K Malik @jatinkrmalik]

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

Coding interviews:
"No AI. Solve this puzzle. We'll watch you."

Actual dev job:
"Please read 40k lines of code written by someone who left in 2017."

We are absolutely not hiring for the same job.

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Your Kubernetes cluster exists because someone wanted Kubernetes on their resume. Not because you needed it.

[Ilina Kareva @ikareva]

Trying out Rust this year.. But I am not sure I will manage to do much... I've completed Part One of "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 https://t.co/jxEvr81mmp #AdventOfCode

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

Deciphering a legacy codebase is like exploring an ancient ruin. You'll find forgotten realms, relics of strange rituals and a distinct lack of documentation. Adventurous archaeology meets modern masochism.

[Soulfood @Soulfoodiiee]

🍽 Onion Ring Chips
👩🏻‍🍳 Stella Drivas | Hungry Happens

📝 Recipe In The Comments

[Sandra @alexhris]

😅

[Mite Mitreski @mitemitreski]

Interesting look under the hood at DeepSeek with - The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1 article

https://t.co/qCifMxAKuy

[Ilina Kareva @ikareva]

Developing in C++ in one pic. Gotta have patience...

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

just two dudes in 2003 not realizing they just made one of the best songs ever

[Sergei Urban @thedadlab]

Got chores to do but don’t feel like getting your hands dirty? 🧼
No problem! Just build yourself a third hand! 🖐️
Made from straws and string, it’s perfect for pointing fingers (at someone else to clean)🤣
#TheDadLab #kidsactivities #parenthood